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GOVERNOR Umar Ganduje has pardoned 12 inmates on death row and commuted the death sentences of six others to life imprisonment.
The governor had in an interview with Trust TV in 2021 revealed that governors were afraid of signing death warrants of convicts because they did not want to order the execution and later find out the person did not deserve to die.
A statement on Tuesday by the spokesman of Kano Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service, SC Musbahu Lawan Nassarawa, said the governor also pardoned four female inmates with long term sentences based on their good behaviour and industry as recommended by the Service.
The governor also gave N5,000 fare to each of the released inmates to enable them reunite with their families.
